Keywords: somalia kismayo lower jubba african union mission amisom kenya kdf patrol security operation linda nchi two year anniversary outdoor SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a photogaph taken 12 October 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 October, a man rides a donkey-drawn cart down a street during a patrol by Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. October 16 marks two years since the Kenya Defense Force first intervened in Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi - meaning Operation Protect the Country in Kiswahili - following a series of kidnappings and cross-border raids along the Kenya-Somalia border by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab. KDF forces were fully integrated into the African Union mission on 22 February 2012 and saw them capture the strategically and economiclly important port city of Kismayo from Al Shabaab in early October 2012 after a sustained 6-month advance across southern Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / RAMADAN MOHAMED HASSAN. SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a photogaph taken 12 October 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 October, a man rides a donkey-drawn cart down a street during a patrol by Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. October 16 marks two years since the Kenya Defense Force first intervened in Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi - meaning Operation Protect the Country in Kiswahili - following a series of kidnappings and cross-border raids along the Kenya-Somalia border by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab. KDF forces were fully integrated into the African Union mission on 22 February 2012 and saw them capture the strategically and economiclly important port city of Kismayo from Al Shabaab in early October 2012 after a sustained 6-month advance across southern Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / RAMADAN MOHAMED HASSAN. SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a photogaph taken 12 October 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 October, a man rides a donkey-drawn cart down a street during a patrol by Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. October 16 marks two years since the Kenya Defense Force first intervened in Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi - meaning Operation Protect the Country in Kiswahili - following a series of kidnappings and cross-border raids along the Kenya-Somalia border by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab. KDF forces were fully integrated into the African Union mission on 22 February 2012 and saw them capture the strategically and economiclly important port city of Kismayo from Al Shabaab in early October 2012 after a sustained 6-month advance across southern Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / RAMADAN MOHAMED HASSAN. two kenya anniversary african year union security linda mission lower operation patrol somalia jubba kismayo kdf nchi amisom